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Chronicles from Hurricane Country: Fallout
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country. Sunday, July 31, 2005. The author at age 23. Photo credit: Dot Marder. I have a masters thesis to write. My classwork is finished; I must find another way to get out of the apartment. I become an assistant to the administrator at Women Strike for Peace. WSP), in lower Manhattan. Each morning I walk down the hill, catch the bus to the ferry, the ferry to the subway, and the subway to Broadway, then walk past old majestic buildings of stone and brick. There we set out tab...
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country: Word of Mouth
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country. Friday, July 29, 2005. I'm in the middle of transcribing a roundtable discussion for an architectural client. Over the years I've been a "fly on the wall" - listening in on tapes of conferences, focus groups, interviews, lectures, and radio programs. In addition to writing and editing, transcribing forms a large part of my business. It's better than a free education. It's being paid. February 22, 1987. He'd asked his son's teacher, "What amount of time do I have? First ...
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country: Science Poems for January 2011: 4
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country. Tuesday, January 04, 2011. Science Poems for January 2011: 4. Last April I posted a science sonnet a day in celebration of National Poetry Month (index with links here. This January I am posting a science poem a day, written in various traditional forms, in honor of Science Online 2011. The "fifth annual international meeting on Science and the Web" occurs Jan. 13-16, 2011. Click on the logo below to access their daily digest (already active) on paper.li. Ships books an...
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country: Weaving Without A Loom
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country. Friday, July 22, 2005. Weaving Without A Loom. On the magic of spiders and the wonders of obsession. Mary called me out to the hedge a few days ago, where she discovered a black-and-yellow argiope. A big one. Simply gorgeous. Body resplendent in geometric black, white, and yellow markings, a Faberge egg in vivo. There's a good description of one here. With more photographic detail than what I was able to shoot. Much as I liked Athene (who along with Artemis gave me stro...
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country: Singin' in the Rain
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country. Monday, June 25, 2012. Singin' in the Rain. Wet clothing hangs to dry after a walk in Tropical Storm Debby's rain. Head over to my post on Cowbird. To hear the audio that accompanies this narrative. My story on Cowbird is reproduced below:. I had managed to dodge isolated and scattered showers during the week. On Sunday, Tropical Storm Debby arrived. Debby is pretty much hovering over the Gulf. That torrential rain isn't going away any time soon. I don't know where this...
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country: A Night With the Moon and the Birds
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country. Monday, June 04, 2012. A Night With the Moon and the Birds. Photographed at 5:46 am Eastern, 4-second exposure at f/4. Mary and I are both wide awake at 4:30 am, but she chooses to stay indoors. She tells me she'll wait for my photographs. I get dressed, attach my camera to its tripod. She and I blow each other kisses before I open the door again. The Moon and I have a date. Our last photo-op had been the rising Supermoon. Back on May 5. I stand in my quiet street, clos...
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country: Supermooned!
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country. Sunday, May 06, 2012. Photographed on May 5, 2012, at 8:25 pm Eastern, 1/40-second exposure at f/4.5. Moonrise for my location occurred at 7:57. Rather than photographing from my driveway as I usually do, I had walked several blocks from home to catch the Full Moon as early as possible. The perigee full moon on May 5, 2012 will be as much as 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons of 2012.". Below: 0.6-second exposure at f/8 at 8:16. As the "Supe...
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country: Before Babel
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country. Thursday, July 28, 2005. I've finally gotten new batteries for my low-end ($30) digital camera. Next thing to do is take it out for a walk when sky conditions are good. It won't do justice to the cloudscapes in these parts, but neither will anything else. Of clouds. Three-dimensional, multilayered. Sometimes they're almost close enough for me to touch. During my early years in Massachusetts I kept hearing radio ads about an organization called. I needed no convincing; I...
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country: Frog Trifecta!
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country. Thursday, September 27, 2012. Our neighborhood frogs are having a banner year. The pair above got into one of our porch lights on September 3. We'd gotten rain earlier that day, and from the calls I'd heard I suspect these are squirrel treefrogs ( Hyla squirella. Rain encourages them to express themselves. Like other treefrogs, this species has enlarged, sticky toepads.". The UF page includes a link to the USGS Frog Call Lookup. I don't know whether these are also squir...
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country: Mysterious Beauties
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Chronicles from Hurricane Country. Tuesday, July 26, 2005. Dark-form females fly in steady streams along the Florida Coast and Keys, then venture out over open water, where they have little chance of reaching land.". Description of the Great Southern White butterfly ( Ascia monuste. From The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders. That swoops beside flying fish, sucking nectar from floating flats of algae. I haven't the foggiest idea. And on the Web) for a butterfly I'd seen in...
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